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Lady Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn banned from Frieze after performance piece.
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FRIEZE ART FAIR OPENING | WEDNESDAY 12TH OCTOBER 2011
Lady Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn left guests at the opening of The Frieze Art Fair' in a state of shock when she had to be dragged out by security after a spontaneous piece of performance art called 'Ignored and Rejected'. When asked about the piece Lady Eleanor said 'This was in homage to a build up of tension that has happened over the last few years of working in the art world, and the Frieze preview was the ultimate moment to release it.'
Tom Lazemby a disturbed visitor said: 'I wasn’t expecting to see that when I came to the Frieze Art Fair' while artist Ben Young excitedly exclaimed: ‘F*cking priceless!! The best piece of art inthere by a mile!”
In collaboration with Ben Moore, film maker and founder of Art Below, 'Ignored and Rejected' will be screened for the first time at Top Floor, Hoxton Square on the evening of Tuesday 25th October at a VIP event.
Since the 3rd Octber Eleanor's work 'Yellow Faces' has been on display across the whole length of Platform 1, at Regents Park tube station, aimed at the 100,000s of art lovers who pass through the tube on the way to Frieze.
For further information about the screening event and press release please contact press@artbelow.org.uk
PLATFORM 1, BAKERLOO LINE
For her exhibition in the London Underground Eleanor has designed 15 site specific posters. Her concept was to give the illusion that the pictures were actually framed and hanging on the wall.
For the artwork itself she choose to focus on a particular strand of "Yellow Faces" that explores the act of looking at art. The images start as documentary style photographs and she then re-works them digitally to create her parallel universe she calls "Yellow Faces". On a first glance a viewer can be tricked into thinking they are looking at an ordinary photograph, yet pretty quickly they realise something is amiss, for one all the characters have these yellow faces.
"I use these faces to highlight how odd our cultural rituals really are, from going to a museum to walking down the street. Most of the time we are switched off, we are on auto pilot. Our bodies move us through the space we are in following the most natural path, even in a such as a museum or an art fair, in fact particularly there after about one hour of viewing something called museum fatigue sets in and we are unable to digest any more information and thus the auto pilot kicks in, often taking us to the gift shop or cafe." Then she added, "its not that I want people to wake up or anything, I just want people to be aware when they are in it. Switching on the auto pilot is our way of coping with the massive amounts of information that surrounds us, so its a kind of survival technique, otherwise our heads would explode, and in some cases, in my pictures, they do!"
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Saatchi Gallery New Sensations | Regents Park Station | Platform 2
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Art Below are 'Turning Ad Space into Art Space' on 2 whole platforms at Regents Park Station to co-inside with the biggest art event of the year, The Frieze Art Fair, just 5 minutes walk from the station.
On Platform 1, artist Eleanor Lindsay-Fynn showcases her most recent work "yellow faces" and on Platform 2 Art Below have teamed up with the Saatchi Gallery and Channel 4 to showcase the work of the 20 finalists of this years New Sensations Prize.
"Art Below Regents Park" kicked off on 10th October to mark the opening of the Saatchi Gallery & Channel 4s New Sensations at Victoria House, Bloomsbury Square, The largest ever exhibition of emerging art to take place during Londons Frieze Week.
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The Art Lift, September 2011
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To coincide with the MA show at City and Guilds of London Art School the students teamed up with Art Below to install a satellite exhibition in Kennington Underground station. For two weeks all 17 students had work presented in 20 x A1 sized panels inside the two passenger lifts normally used for advertising thereby creating a compelling alternative gallery space. Following the success of the inaugural year, this outpost offers a unique public art display.
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Art Below, London, September 2011
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An eclectic mix of international artists celebrate the freedom to exhibit their creative talent in major stations across the London Underground. 5th - 19th September 2011.
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Art Below, at the Crunch Art Fair, November 2011
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This year Art Below will be at the Crunch Art and Philosophy Festival in Hay hosted by the Institute of Art and Ideas. Art Below will be running the 'Art Breakfast' talk sessions starting at 10.30 am on Saturday and Sunday, headed by Ben Moore.
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 http://artfestivalathay.org/
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Art Below Camden Town, August 2011
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The leading star of a Sky Arts Documentary, Johan Andersson was last week was the focus of media attention world wide when Art Below launched his portrait of the late soul singer Amy Winehouse as a poster display at Camden Town tube station.
On Thursday 25th August Art Below unveiled the actual oil painting itself at a private view at Notting Hill's 118 Gallery. There was a live performance by 'Orlando and The Swell'. And Djing by Gus from Razorlight.
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Having graduated from Central St Martins in 2008, Andersson became the youngest ever person to be shortlisted for the BP Portrait Award and listed in The Independent's Top 20 Artists 2008. His work has been displayed at the National Portrait Gallery and he also won the Jerwood Contemporary Painters Prize.
Andersson has exhibited alongside some of the most celebrated and influential contemporary artists including Anish Kapoor, Tracey Emin, Sarah Lucas, Gavin Turk and Howard Hodgkin. His portraits are unique in their depiction of beauty - 'celebrating diversity in the knowledge that we are all uniquely made' whilst revealing 'an ambiguous and awkward underlying tension'.
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Lisson Gallery, Cory Arcangel, Speakers Going Hammer
12 October – 12 November 2011
Lisson Gallery proudly announce a solo exhibition of new work from Cory Arcangel. The exhibition will mark a move away from video modifications and articulate the wide range of his practice. Arcangel will present works previously unseen in the UK, following on from his large installation in February at The Barbican, London, and a solo show which opened in May at The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Location: 52-54 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DA
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm
Contact: T: + 44(0)20 7724 2739 www.lissongallery.com
Nearest Tube: Edgware Road / Marylebone
Lisson Gallery, Shirazeh Houshiary, No Boundary Condition
12 October – 12 November 2011
Lisson Gallery are delighted to announce the seventh solo exhibition of Shirazeh Houshiary to be held at the gallery since 1984. Houshiary will present new works in the rarely-used large backspace including sculpture, animation, her first wall piece and her largest canvas pieces to date including her first diptych.
Location: 29 Bell Street, London, NW1 5DA
Opening Hours: Monday - Friday 10am - 6pm, Saturday 11am - 5pm
Contact: T: + 44(0)20 7724 2739 www.lissongallery.com
Nearest Tube: Edgware Road / Marylebone
20 Projects, Alex Hoda, Hostage
12 – 23 October 2011
Alexander Dellal’s 20 Projects presents ‘Hostage’, a new body of sculpture by British artist Alex Hoda. Sculpture has always been about the external surface of an object but in his own words, Hoda’s works ‘turn a natural process inside out.’ Referencing Jean Fautrier’s ‘Hostage’ series of the 40’s each of the new twelve figurative bronze sculptures started life as a small rectangle of nicotine gum. The masticated gum was scanned and enlarged with a 3D printing machine, with Hoda taking a traditional cast of the resulting ‘object’ to translate it into bronze. Never touched by the artist’s hand, the series is a product of reflex movement and technology; deliberately ambiguous it is open to multiple readings and a variety of responses.
Address: 64 Margaret Street, London W1W 8SW
Opening Times: 11am - 6pm daily
Contact Tel: +44 (0) 207 225 0066 www.20projects.co.uk
Nearest tube: Oxford Circus
EB&Flow, Neil Ayling, Flection
5 October-5 November 2011
EB&Flow is pleased to announce Neil Ayling’s first London solo exhibition, Flection. Currently combining studio work for Sir Anthony Caro with his own practice as an artist and working on a public sculpture for King’s Cross, London, to be revealed in April 2012, Ayling’s interest in fragmentation informs his sculpture as he defines sculptural aesthetics of cityscapes through a visual and physical editing process. Fragments of architecture are isolated to highlight their inherent sculptural compositions, providing a snap shot of the whole yet occupying a new space separate from their origin.
Address: 77 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4QS
Opening Times: Tuesday – Friday 10 – 6pm, Saturday 11 – 3pm
Contact: T: +44 (0) 20 7729 7797 www.ebandflowgallery.com
Nearest tube: Old Street
Christian Jankowski, Frieze Projects
13 – 16 October 2011
Lisson Gallery artist Christian Jankowski has been commissioned to create site-specific work for Frieze Art Fair 2011 as part of Frieze Projects curated by Sarah McCrory. Jankowski’s project engages directly with the idea of sales and exchange and the value of luxury goods. In conjunction with a luxury yacht company, Jankowski’s project will employ a boat dealer to sell a full-size motor yacht from a conventional gallery stand. This luxury product will be available to buy not only as a boat, but also as a Christian Jankowski artwork. The potential client will be able to enter the salon to see the interior, and hear descriptions of the yacht/artwork.
Location: Frieze Art Fair, Regent’s Park, London
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ALEXANDER CRESWELL
12th - 23rd October, 11am - 5pm
with an evening viewing on Wednesday 19th October, 6-8pm
or by appointment
Watts's Great Studio
Limnerslease - Down Lane - Compton - Surrey - GU3 1DJ
Over the past 6 months Alexander has enjoyed breathing life and creativity into Great Studio which has not been used by a painter since G. F. Watts's death in 1904. The show includes the vast new Venice Redentore Fireworks commission, the largest watercolour of its type ever painted. You may also wish to visit the Watts Gallery nearby which was re-opened by HRH The Prince of Wales in May 2011.
RSVP 01483 277311 kate@alexandercreswell.com
www.alexandercreswell.com
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Neil Ayling, Prime, 2011, Steel, PVC Vinyl image,175 x 130 x 128cms
courtesy the artist and EB&Flow
EB&Flow is pleased to announce Neil Ayling’s first London solo exhibition, Flection. Ayling’s interest in fragmentation informs both his sculpture and photography as he defines sculptural aesthetics of cityscapes through a visual and physical editing process.
Ayling edits and manipulates imagery through a process of cutting and folding, flection meaning the resulting condition of something being folded or bent. Fragments of architecture are isolated to highlight their inherent sculptural compositions. They provide a snap shot of the whole yet occupy a new space separate from their origin.
Ayling’s new body of work includes a series of large free standing sculptures created using materials found in urban areas such as steel, concrete, hoarding and billboard posters. The materials are reconfigured in the work to create new forms whilst retaining both visual and physical references to a specific site. The sculptures use imagery in different ways but all start from a two-dimensional state, such as the photography of architectural elements.
Another large sculpture in the exhibition responds to the lines, shapes and colours found within graffiti. With the permission of The Hayward Gallery, London, Ayling installed blank hoarding at the Southbank Undercroft space for three months. During this time they were repeatedly covered with layer upon layer of graffiti. These boards were then subsequently used to create new 3D sculptures employing Ayling’s trademark methods of extraction and dislocation.
Ayling currently combines studio work for Sir Anthony Caro with his own practice as an artist.
Key Information
Neil Ayling, Flection: 5 October – 5 November 2011
Address: 77 Leonard Street, London, EC2A 4QS
Opening Times:Tuesday - Friday 10- 6pm, Saturday 11- 3pm
Nearest tube: Old Street
Phone number: +44 (0)20 7729 7797
Website: www.ebandflowgallery.com
Private View, Thursday 4 October 2011, 6.30 – 8.30pm
For press information and images please contact:
Sophie da Gama Campos or Toby Kidd at JBPelhamPR
Tel: +44 (0)20 8969 3959
Email: sophie@jbpelhampr.com or toby@jbpelhampr.com
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